Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-15
DESPERATE KILLED.
HE RYrusEs 10 tuRRINDgR AND Is
SHOT TWICE.
General Forth Carolina Notes.-The Agri-
cultural Collsgs-rhs chinch-Bug
and Cotton-Brisfs.
Especial telegram 70 the Dispstch.I

completed all arrangements for begin
ming work on the building at once.
Convicts have been secured and some
bricks will be furnished in a fortnight.
The intention is to have the work well
under way in three months. The State
Board of Agriculture adjourned to-day.
Much of the day was devoted to the dis
cussion o matters at the experiment
farm. The size of the farm was re-
duced from thirty to fifteen acres. The
resignation of Myron Whitney, its SUI
perintendent, was finally accepted.
The temperature here to-day is 1O1o.
Governor Scales has accepted the in
yitation to deliver the address at the
opening of the farmers encampment
at Mount Holly.
Chinch-bugs are reported in the cot
ton in Cumberland county and in some
counties along the southern border.
DEsPERADO KILLED.
Cesar Cox, a noted negro desperate,
was killed yesterday in Jones county.
He was an ex-convict and very DANCE
rous man. He set fire to the Clubhouse
Of Il. S. Forcbam last week and it was
destroyed. He attempted to burn the
clubhouse Of John Goodwin, but was
detected and pursued. He was tracked
into vine swamp. Refusing to sur
render he was shot twice and instantly
killed. For years he had been sort OF
terror to that region.
The differences between the city
government of Newberne and the vol
unteer fire department of that place
have, after great labor, been amicably
adjusted. The fire department was
sustained, and will not disband, as was
intended.
j. G.. Blalock, a white man, has been
lodged in Jail at pittsboro on the
charge of burglary, which is. capital
crime in this STATE.
The case of the State against Noah
Evans (colored), charged with burning
the Raleigh Cotton-Seed Oil-Mills last
March, will be tried tomorrow in Wake
Superior Court.
Dispositions are being taken at
Charleston, S. c., to-day i'll the impor-
tant case of the Fernolinc Chemical
Company against the Caroli:a Oil and
Creosote Company of Wilmington, n.
G., for alleged infringements of patents.
This case is now pending in the United
States Circuit Court in this city. The
Company is said to be be-
hind the Fernoline company. Samuel
+. Phillips is counsel for the defence,
and Stickney & Ship, of New York,
and Strong, Gray & Stamps, of Raleigh,
for the plaintiffs.
The NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Many persons went to Burlington to-
day to attend the annual meeting of
the stockholders of the North Carolina
which was held there.
STATE GUARD NEWS.
The Dallas Light Infantry, Captain
VI. +. Holland, has made requisitlon
for tents for an encampment at South
port, and will go there in few days.
The Adjutant-General of South Caro-
lima has made application for large
plumber of tents for an encampment OF
troops of his State at Spartanburg, 5.
T., next month.
The encampments of the First and
Fourth regiments appear to have been
abandoned.
NEWS HERE AND THERE.
Another ticket is now mentioned for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor. 1t
IS Thomas j. Jarvis and James III. Mer-
-imon. 1T is claimed that this ticket is
very popular in the eastern section.
Ihe rice crop in the Cape-Fear sec
ion is in fine condition and the indi-
.ations are that it will be large and of
good quality.
Once in while one hears an inquiry |
rs to the whereabouts of ex-Congress-
nan james W. Reid. Heisyetin Canada.
he writes many letters to people in the
Piedmont section, but sends them all |
m letters to his brother. The latter
hen mails them to the parties. In this
way large correspondence is kept up. |
.ctters for the ex-Congressman are
ilso transmitted by the brother in the
same manner.
The Agricultural building is to be
supplied with water and heat as the
capitol and Supreme Court building
ne, though by an oversight it was
omitted i'll the act which made the ap-
for those purposes. At
orney-G General Davidson will prepare
IN opinion on the matter.
Mr.. James ". White, of Alamance
county, who died at Fort Mill. 5. c.,
tuesday, was large owner of cottOn-mill
both in this State and South
jarolina. He was a man of large
means and was a brotherin-law of
colonel Il. NJ. Holt
The revenue act of this year does not
impose the tax heretofore levied upon
he gross receipts of hotels and board
ng-houses. The change was made by
he State Board of Tax-List Revision,
nd was afterward arranged in the
eyenue act. The tax of 81 on each
lorse in livery-stables also ceases.
DR.. Theodore n. Jackson, widely
lnown in the State as travelling den
lat and patent-medicine man, fell dead
ast night about midnight at his home
lere.
The Board of Agriculture desires to
ave the farmers Institutes at Mount
Holly and at Concord so arranged that
hey will not conflict, but there appears
O be some friction, and it is asserted
hat the Concord meeting will be held
August 11-13th as originally planned,
nd not August 13-15th as the Board of
agriculture by its resolution suggested.
The case of William Harris (colored),
or assault, is set for trial in Wake SUI
,erior Court next Monday.
There will be over sixty exhibitors at
he Wake county grape-show to be held
iere August 4th. The premiums are
arge and numerous. Grapes will be
ent here from many other points in
he State. The State Horticultural So
iety meets August 9TH and will attend
he exhibition. The show is open to
Exhibitors from any point in the State.
here will also be display of fruit,
ut this will he small, as fruit is very